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*This story has been updated with additional accounts of negotiations on player support
High Performance Sport NZ has quietly footed the bill for an independent review and player wellbeing support in the Silver Ferns' camp - even as coach at the centre of the crisis, Dame Noeline Taurua, remains a sitting member of the agency's own board.
While Netball NZ grapples with a deepening crisis over Taurua's suspension, HPSNZ has played a behind-the-scenes role, offering funding, strategic advice, and resourcing to help steer the troubled high performance programme.
But its involvement in the highly public, and increasingly political, dispute raises uncomfortable questions.
What began as a quietly handled cultural review has spiralled into one of the biggest controversies in New Zealand netball history. Tensions erupted into public view last month when Netball NZ abruptly stood down Taurua and her coaching staff just days out from the Taini Jam
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